News

Since our last issue, John Rickard has been promoted to 3 Dan, and Dave Artus to shodan.
Congratulations to both of these.

DUSSELDORF

A tough tournament for teams of four was held in Dusseldorf in June. The overall winners
were Berlin, who were able to field a 6 dan on board 2. London finished in an undistinguished
11th. place, but had no cause at all to complain of the firework display, the beer or the
hospitality. Next year, with a little more concentration on spotting ataris, we might do better.

GERMANY

This years championship was won by Jurgen Mattern, as usual. The ride to Japan goes to
David Schoffel who was second.

AUSTRALIA

John Power will shortly be back from a honeymoon in his native country to continue his
labours on Go World. We wish him the best of luck.

LEICESTER

42 players attended the tournament on 3 July. Quentin Mills won all his games for the
second year running. Other prizes went to:

P. Froggatt (3 kyu, Sheffield);

T. OBrien (5 kyu, Bracknell);

and A. Thompson (15 kyu, Monmouth).

Qualifiers for the 1984 Candidates Tournament were Bob Thompson and Gerry Mills.

The raffle was drawn with complete impartiality by Jeremy Smithers (aged 4), and
resulted in Bob Thompson acquiring a bottle of sake.

JAPAN

Cho Chikun is having a bit of trouble holding on to his titles. He seemed to have
the Honinbo well under control with Rin Kai Ho 3-0 behind, but Rin came back to win
four in a row and regain the title which he lost to Ishida in 1971. Meanwhile, Otake
has almost finished winning the Meijin league, and will challenge Cho next month.
Otake has been keeping his eye in by defending the Gosei title, but he is making
heavy weather of that, and was 2-1 down against Awaji Shuzo last time we heard.

"31 Go players crammed themselves into a small room in York University on 9 June,
while outside, half the people of York were milling about eating ice creams and
waving balloons at the University" Summer spectacular" Fete. A common feature of
these events was that very few people won prizes. Bottles of sake and Japanese
woodblock prints were won by Terry Barker (Bolton, 1 dan); A.Atkins (Nottingham,
5 kyu); A.Creed (Hull, 6 kyu); C Rasbash Hull, 10 kyu) and J. Ridgeway
(Leeds 18 kyu), all of whom won all their games, and by John Smith (Manchester 2 dan)
who sneaked in with 2.5.

Nobody won the car at the Fete, but I managed to win a bottle of mushroom ketchup
at the Amnesty tombola.

"Another chance to try your luck is planned for the same time next year."

MANCHESTER:

This years Northern congress was won by John Smith from the local club. Richard
Granville came second. Full details in our next issue.

This article is from the
British Go Journal
lssue 60
which is one of a series of back issues now available on the web.